Digit Jump - Futility Closet

Digit Jump

digit jump puzzle

Place the digits 1 through 8 into these circles so that no two successive numbers are connected by a line. If we don’t count rotations or reflections, the solution is unique.

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One way to solve this is to invert the task: Draw a new diagram in which each circle is connected only to the circles to which it had not previously been connected, and then seek a connected path along which the successive digits 1-8 can be placed. There are four of these, all rotations and reflections of the solution above.

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